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Housing Units (2000): 15236
Land area (2000): 4.781935 sq. miles (12.385154 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.198011 sq. miles (3.102833 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.979946 sq. miles (15.487987 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58200
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.519455 N, 74.275326 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 08861
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Perth Amboy
Wikipedia
Perth Amboy is a station on New Jersey Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, located in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, 1½ miles south of Woodbridge and 2½ miles north of South Amboy. The station is located in a cut between Elm Street and Maple Street and between Smith Street and Market Street in downtown Perth Amboy, and has two low side platforms. A ticket office is located at street level. The platforms are below street level in the cut.
The station building was built in the 1920s to replace an older structure built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey that was moved to Lewis Street and currently serves as a private residence there. It been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.
Usage examples of "perth amboy".
Route 9 comes south here, see, and down here a couple miles below Perth Amboy it splits.
On the afternoon of September 11, a barge manned by redcoats met them at Perth Amboy and ferried them across Raritan Bay to the tip of Staten Island.
And in a machine shop in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, for the duration of a coffee-break, the natural law that says every action must have a reaction of equal moment and opposite sign took a coffee-break too.
He would remain in Perth Amboy, he explained, as a guarantee that they would not be seized as prisoners.
At Perth Amboy the morning of September 11, the three Americans were met by one of Lord Howe's officers who had crossed the narrow channel from Staten Island on the admiral's red-and-gilt barge and presented himself as a volunteer hostage.
I got to Perth Amboy and lined up for the bridge to Staten Island.
Leonard Petrie drove through Perth Amboy at five-forty-five, and calculated on reaching Manhattan before it grew too dark.
I stopped the next day with a friend at Perth Amboy, and then moved on to Philadelphia where I was remarkably well-received, despite the ferocity of the newspapers.
It survived their discovery of girls, weathered the death of Dom DiAngelis and Toms family moving off to Perth Amboy.
There were refugees from the north, from Perth Amboy, from as far as Newark.
Who does it prove to be but Foretopman Bodine, once of the Seahorse, who, as he now relates, having jump'd that ship in Madras, watching from shore as she sail'd away to the Capture of Manila, had then hir'd on to a China ship, which was set upon in mid-Ocean by Pirates, who took him to South America, whence he escap'd, making his way North, among Typhoons and Hurricanoes, Jungle and Swamp, Alligators and Boas, Indians and Spaniards, till fetching up in Perth Amboy in the company of a certain Roaring Dot, belle of the Harbor.
Any sighting of this craft, whether by a radar operator with twenty years' experience or a little old lady in Perth Amboy, is regarded by the government as a case of autosuggestion—.